PACIFICATION
Dictionary entry overview: What does pacification mean?
• PACIFICATION (noun)
The noun PACIFICATION has 3 senses:
1. the act of appeasing someone or causing someone to be more favorably inclined
2. a treaty to cease hostilities
3. actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency
Familiarity information: PACIFICATION used as a noun is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• PACIFICATION (noun)
Meaning:
The act of appeasing someone or causing someone to be more favorably inclined
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
pacification; mollification
Context examples:
a wonderful skill in the pacification of crying infants / his unsuccessful mollification of the mob
Hypernyms ("pacification" is a kind of...):
appeasement; calming (the act of appeasing (as by acceding to the demands of))
Meaning:
A treaty to cease hostilities
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
peace treaty; pacification; peace
Context example:
peace came on November 11th
Hypernyms ("pacification" is a kind of...):
accord; pact; treaty (a written agreement between two states or sovereigns)
Instance hyponyms:
Peace of Westphalia (the peace treaty that ended the Thirty Years' War in 1648)
Treaty of Versailles (the treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 after the end of World War I which demanded exorbitant reparations from the Germans)
Meaning:
Actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
counterinsurgency; pacification
Hypernyms ("pacification" is a kind of...):
battle; conflict; struggle (an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals))
